Let the people think they govern and they will be governed. William Penn

Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper. Larry Flynt

Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest. Denis Diderot

Ninety eight percent of the adults in this country are decent, hardworking, honest Americans. It's the other lousy two percent that get all the publicity. But then, we elected them. Lily Tomlin

No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent. Abraham Lincoln

Ohio claims they are due a president as they haven't had one since Taft. Look at the United States, they have not had one since Lincoln. Will Rogers

Our government... teaches the whole people by its example. If the government becomes the lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy. Louis D. Brandeis

Talk is cheap - except when Congress does it. Cullen Hightower

That government is best which governs least. Henry David Thoreau

The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter. Winston Churchill

The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would steal them away. Ronald Reagan

The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern: every class is unfit to govern. Lord Acton

The fact that political ideologies are tangible realities is not a proof of their vitally necessary character. The bubonic plague was an extraordinarily powerful social reality, but no one would have regarded it as vitally necessary. Wilhelm Reich

The genius of our ruling class is that it has kept a majority of the people from ever questioning the inequity of a system where most people drudge along, paying heavy taxes for which they get nothing in return. Gore Vidal

The government solution to a problem is usually as bad as the problem. Milton Friedman

The government, which was designed for the people, has got into the hands of the bosses and their employers, the special interests. An invisible empire has been set up above the forms of democracy. Woodrow Wilson

The instant formal government is abolished, society begins to act. A general association takes place, and common interest produces common security. Thomas Paine

The mistakes made by Congress wouldn't be so bad if the next Congress didn't keep trying to correct them. Cullen Hightower

The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them. Karl Marx

The way people in democracies think of the government as something different from themselves is a real handicap. And, of course, sometimes the government confirms their opinion. Lewis Mumford

The worst thing in this world, next to anarchy, is government. Henry Ward Beecher

This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold of a hammer. Will Rogers

To hear some men talk of the government, you would suppose that Congress was the law of gravitation, and kept the planets in their places. Wendell Phillips

To rule is easy, to govern difficult. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Washington is a place where politicians don't know which way is up and taxes don't know which way is down. Robert Orben

We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give. Winston Churchill